Object Details
- Kurtz, Sarah
- Description
- Three block alphabets; one script alphabet. Two alphabets have letters colored alternately with no "J"; numbers to 4, to 15, and to 21; all these rows separated by geometric crossbands. Surrounding verse and inscription paired motifs of trees, crowns, flower-baskets, birds, and bird in wreath; two checkered flower-baskets with handles but no flowers. Border of geometric strawberry vine on all four sides. Silk embroidery thread on linen ground. STITCHES: cross, crosslet, stem, chain, eyelet, Algerian eye. THREAD COUNT: warp 28, weft 32/in.
- Inscription:
- "When wealth to virtuous hands is giv[e]n
It blef[s]ses like the dews of heavn
Like heaven it hears the orphans cries
And wipes the tears from widows eyes - Sarah Kurtz." (written in ink after the inscription is: "Worked 1804 age 9")
- Background:
- Sarah was born January 20, 1795, to Christian (1751 - 1808) and Maria Gardner (1756 -1822) in Georgetown, DC. She and Thomas Orme were married by Rev. Balch in Georgetown, D.C., on June 2, 1816. They had three daughters—Rebecca, Elizabeth, and Anna. Sarah died on December 23, 1864, in Washington and is buried there in Oak Hill Cemetery. Anna's daughter Mary donated her grandmother's and aunt's samplers. See Elizabeth Orme's sampler.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Mary E. Lyddane
- 1804
- ID Number
- TE.T07318
- catalog number
- T07318
- accession number
- 124663
- Object Name
- sampler
- Physical Description
- linen (ground fabric material)
- silk (embroidery thread material)
- Measurements
- overall: 21 1/8 in x 17 1/8 in; 53.6575 cm x 43.4975 cm
- place made
- United States: District of Columbia, Georgetown
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Samplers
- Textiles
- National Museum of American History
- depicted
- Alphabets
- Record ID
- nmah_639570
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-82e0-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
